Bill Text: TX HB4075 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the dissolution of fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4075 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4075-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the dissolution of fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4075 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4075-Introduced.html
By: Perez | H.B. No. 4075 |
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relating to the time for dissolution of a fire control, prevention, | ||
and emergency medical services district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 344.260, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
344.260. RESULTS OF REFERENDUM. (a) If less than a majority | ||
of the votes cast in a continuation referendum election are for the | ||
continuation of a district or if a majority of the votes cast in a | ||
dissolution referendum are for dissolution of the district: | ||
(1) the board shall certify that fact to the secretary | ||
of state not later than the 10th day after the date of the canvass of | ||
the returns; and | ||
(2) the district is dissolved and ceases to operate in | ||
accordance with section 344.301. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 344.301, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
344.301. TIME FOR DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT. | ||
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period for which the district was authorized to impose taxes for | ||
district purposes pursuant to the last successful creation or | ||
continuation election |
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(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a district that is | ||
continued under Section 344.251(g), and that district is dissolved | ||
on the expiration of the period for which it was continued. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |